King of the World by David Remnick

King of the World by David Remnick

The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali--with an Introduction by Salman Rushdie

On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly transform America's racial politics, its popular culture, and its notions of heroism.
        
No one has captured Ali--and the era that he exhilarated and sometimes infuriated--with greater vibrancy, drama, and astuteness than David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb (and editor of The New Yorker). In charting Ali's rise from the gyms of Louisville, Kentucky, to his epochal fights against Liston and Floyd Patterson, Remnick creates a canvas of unparalleled richness. He gives us empathetic portraits of wisecracking sportswriters and bone-breaking mobsters; of the baleful Liston and the haunted Patterson; of an audacious Norman Mailer and an enigmatic Malcolm X. Most of all, King of the World does justice to the speed, grace, courage, humor, and ebullience of one of the greatest athletes and irresistibly dynamic personalities of our time.

The New Yorker's editor is David Remnick. He is the author of Resurrection and King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Birth of an American Hero, as well as Lenin's Tomb, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. With his wife and three children, he lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780375702297
ISBN 10	0375702296
Title	King of the World
Author	David Remnick
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1999-10-05
Number of pages	352
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